Trammell Crow Lands Full-Building Tenant in Chicago

March 3, 2026

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A logistics company secured nearly 800,000 square feet.

Trammell Crow Co. has secured a full-building lease for a 788,000-square-foot industrial building at Plainfield Business Center in Plainfield, Ill., and now will also move ahead with a second building of the same size.

The inaugural tenant at Building 1 is RJW Logistics Group, a retail-focused logistics and supply chain solutions provider that specializes in consolidation services for consumer-packaged goods suppliers delivering to major national retailers. RJW is headquartered in Woodridge, Ill., and operates more than 16 distribution centers in Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania.

Dominic Carbonari of JLL represented RJW in its lease negotiations, and Trammell Crow was represented by Matt Mulvihill and Phil DeBoer of CBRE.

Harris Architects is the designer for Plainfield Business Center, and Krusinski Construction Co. was the general contractor for Phase 1. Kimley-Horn and Associates was the civil engineer on the project.

Commercial Property Executive reported in November 2024 that Trammell Crow had just broken ground on Building 1, which was then scheduled to deliver the following fall.

Building 2 will total 788,000 square feet and is scheduled to break ground in the second quarter of this year. It’s being built on a speculative basis on an approximately 46-acre site. Building 2 will feature 40-foot clear heights, 80 dock doors (expandable to 156) and 211 trailer parking stalls.

Plainfield Business Center is about 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago and easily accessible to both I-55 and I-80. At full buildout, it will encompass more than 8 million square feet of industrial space.

In a prepared statement, Josh Udelhofen, a Chicago-based principal with Trammell Crow, commented that the overall development includes another 340 acres of fully entitled land and could accommodate a build-to-suit project of as much as 2 million square feet.

Accelerating into 2026

The Chicagoland industrial space market saw remarkable leasing momentum in the fourth quarter, totaling 12.7 million square feet, as against 8.4 million in the first quarter, according to a recent report from JLL.

Not only were logistics and distribution companies the major drivers of 2025 leasing volume, but RJW Logistics on its own inked five new leases totaling 3.7 million square feet.

Beyond that, the region’s industrial vacancy was stable at 5.1 percent, a situation JLL expects to remain, given limited speculative space entering the market this year.

Just about a year ago, Westmount Realty Capital acquired a 390,781-square-foot portfolio of nine light/shallow-bay industrial properties in the Chicago metro area, one of them in Plainfield. The deal’s dollar amount was not disclosed.